English

Tobias Key

4 September, 02:26

I stand amid the roar

Of a surf-tormented shore,

And I hold within my hand

Grains of the golden sand-15

How few! yet how they creep

Through my fingers to the deep,

While I weep - while I weep!

O God! can I not grasp

Them with a tighter clasp? 20

O God! can I not save

One from the pitiless wave?

Is all that we see or seem

But a dream within a dream?

Which BEST describes the use and effect of rhetoric in the second stanza?

A) Expletives and rhetorical questions reinforce a tone of anguish and despair. B) Expletives and rhetorical questions reinforce a tone of relief, but also uncertainty.

C) Repetition and parallelism create a contrast to the destructive nature of the speaker.

D) Repetition and parallelism suggest similarities that emphasize the strength of the speaker.